Posted on 04/26/2022 1:55:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Before omicron, one-third of Americans had been infected with the coronavirus, but by the end of February, that rate had climbed to nearly 60 percent — including about 75 percent of kids and 60 percent of people age 18 to 49, according to federal health data released Tuesday.
The data from blood tests offers the first evidence that over half the U.S. population, or 189 million people have been infected at least once since the pandemic began — double the number reflected in official case counts. Officials cautioned, however, that the data, in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, does not indicate people have protection against the virus going forward, especially against increasingly transmissible variants.
“We continue to recommend that everyone be up to date on their vaccinations, get your primary series and booster, when eligible,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing.
Kristie Clarke, the CDC official who authored the report, said by February, “evidence of previous COVID-19 infections substantially increased among every age group, likely reflecting the increase in cases we noted as omicron surged in this country.”
Clarke said the greatest increases took place in those with the lowest levels of vaccination, noting that older adults were more likely to be fully vaccinated.
The largest increases were in children and teenagers through age 17 — about 75 percent of them had been infected by February, based on blood samples that look at antibodies developed in response to a coronavirus infection but not in response to vaccination. That’s about 58 million children.
The blood test data suggests 189 million Americans had covid-19 by end of February, well over double the 80 million cases shown by The Washington Post case tracker, which is based on state data of confirmed infections.
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This is just now news to the WaPo?
We’re all gonna get slightly sick!!!
This is the first time I’ve qualified as a ‘minority’.
Are there any perks?
Hot damn. Finally we’re minorities. Where’$ our free stuff? Cain’t wait.
Hot damn. Finally we’re minorities. Where’$ our free stuff? Cain’t wait.
“This is the first time I’ve qualified as a ‘minority’”
Me too.
“Are there any perks?”
A trip to covid jail if the commies in this country get their way.
People get colds? Gasp!
Right, I think we knew this over a year ago.
Effective
Vaccine
Most people I talk to say because they’re triple vaccinated COVID was mild when they had it , I think they’re being groomed to think that no one wants them to know it was fake vaccine and the real vaccine surprise is yet to come ,LOL
“... half the U.S. population, or 189 million people...”
We now have almost 380 million people? Maybe if we count the 50-60 criminal illegal alien invaders walking around.
If they were all in the same uniform, we’d look like an occupied country.
“Coronavirus has infected majority of Americans”
Easy to tell who, also. If they’re wearing a mask, they are ‘infected’.
66.6% of the CDC should be fired today!
Any “news” outlet not mentioning natural immunity is disseminating lies. And ignoring science. They focus only on a commercial product.
biden proved the kung flu is a scam when he waltzed into the white house, disbanded trump’s “operation warp speed”, opened our southern border, and continues to covertly spread over 2,000,000 nondocumented unvaccinated invaders across our country during a supposed “global pandemic” while anthony fauci, the cdc, the nih, the world health organization, the enemedia, hollywierd, and the majority of our elected representatives sit back and watch...
BINGO!
Someone gets it.
Heck... I would not doubt, and do not laugh, if in the net sum of things, government even created more fatalities.
My mother which ended up dying in that time period had pancreatic cancer (bad odds, I know), but nonetheless she had delays in her care because of all the stupid shit that was going on with Covid. Yes, it did cause delays in care. It did cause delays in diagnostics, delays in certain services...
There are a lot of people like her and with other diseases.
There are many others with mental diseases that saw delays or received inferior virtual care...
But who’s counting, right? All the CDC and NIH counts is how many people die from pneumonia that also had covid, and then add that to their inflated BS statistics, their BS covid vaccine statistics, their BS masks, their BS new strain, BS social distancing...
***If Covid proved two things, they are how political and inept government is.***
Will these lessons be learned by the people?
But of course the governments retort would be that they simply need more money and more authority to impose even more rules...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-benghazi-idUSBRE8BI1G420121220
When government fails, it is always because they simply need more money and more power - if you ask them.
At least 58% of U.S. population has natural antibodies from previous Covid infection, CDC says!
PUBLISHED TUE, APR 26 2022 1:00 PM EDT UPDATED 54 MIN AGO
Three out of every five people in the U.S. now have antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection, according to a new CDC analysis.
The proportion even higher among children, demonstrating how widespread the virus was during the winter omicron surge.
CDC officials told reporters on a call Tuesday that the study did not measure whether people with prior infections had high enough antibody levels to protect against reinfection and severe illness.
However, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said health officials believe there is a lot of protection against the virus in communities from vaccination, boosting and infection taken together.
Three out of every five people in the U.S. now have antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection with the proportion even higher among children, demonstrating how widespread the virus was during the winter omicron surge, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The proportion of people with natural Covid antibodies increased substantially from about 34% of the population in December to about 58% in February during the unprecedent wave of infection driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. The CDC’s analysis didn’t factor in people who had antibodies from vaccination.
The CDC published the data in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Tuesday.
The increase in antibody prevalence was most pronounced among children, indicating a high rate of infection among kids during the winter omicron wave. About 75% of children and teenagers now have antibodies from past Covid infections, up from abut 45% in December.
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